Super Bowl sex, drug arrests underway in NYC

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-EXCITE

NEW YORK (AP) - Police were rounding up 18 people in New York City on Thursday on allegations they sold "party packs" of cocaine and sex to high-end clients and texted their customers to advertise ahead of this week's Super Bowl festivities.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office said the arrests follow an 11-month investigation by the state Organized Crime Task Force, the Department of Homeland Security and the New York Police Department. About half of the 18 suspects had been arrested by 9 a.m. Thursday and brought to a Manhattan police precinct for processing before arraignment, a spokesman said.

Authorities said electronic and other surveillance and reviews of business records show the ring laundered money and credit cards through clothing, wig, beauty supply and limousine businesses and targeted wealthy, out-of-town customers, especially during large events. Prostitutes would bring cocaine to clients who ordered the so-called party packs.

While authorities say the criminal conspiracy extended to Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island and the Hudson Valley, the operation was based in Manhattan. A text to regular customers saying "new sexy & beautiful girls R in town waiting for u" was sent 10 days before Sunday's Super Bowl at MetLife Stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands, which is expected to draw some well-heeled football fans to the city.



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[geek tragedy]

1. super bowl sex trafficking is an annual exercise in exaggeration, so these

people were really idiotic to do this knowing police would be looking for something to back up the hype.

(note that sex trafficking is a huge problem, and the focus on super bowl weekend detracts from serious discussion of the issue and gives ammunition to the pro-sex trafficking crowd).

[KansDem]

2. "High-end clients?"

I wonder who those might be...I wonder...

[Garion_55]

3. so whats the crime?

hookers and coke sounds like a party to me not criminal behavior. who is the victim?

[Lucky Luciano]

4. It is a conduit for sex trafficking - you have no idea how willing these women are. nt

[Baclava]

6. 'lots of shady characters, lots of dirty deals'

"They allege that after clients were impaired by drugs, the ring would flood the room with additional prostitutes and repeatedly charge clients' credit card, at times more than $10,000 for one night. Through the front businesses, the group would charge credit cards for legitimate goods and services that were not provided, according to investigators."

[6000eliot]

5. Sounds like the check bounced.

[cactusfractal]

7. I feel so much safer...

Now that high end prostitutes and drugs have been interdicted by our doughty blue-clad protectors.

Yeah, except not.

These are not crimes; they are vices. There are no victims.

Legalize and regulate these vices to be sure all participants are getting what they pay for, and we no longer have to bear the burdensome cost of our wars on drugs and "illicit" sex.

[OnlinePoker]

8. Just curious about your statements "These are not crimes...There are no victims"

Would you say the same if it turned out the women were forced into the "profession"? And by forced, I mean through threat of violence or the need to maintain a drug habit. I'm not saying this is the case here, but how would the police know?

[Garion_55]

9. as long as the women are there voluntarily

there is no crime. of course forcing women to have sex against their will is a crime with a victim. but if she is there willingly to get money to feed her kids or something, leave em be.